Ordinary Quotes

2227 Ordinary quotes by 1506 unique authors

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions. — Vincent Cassel
What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure. — Deepak Chopra
The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in… — Oswald Chambers
God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine… — Smith Wigglesworth
The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She… — Maria Montessori
Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God. — Oswald Chambers
I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can… — Maeve Binchy
The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people. — Paulo Coelho
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism. — Philip Zimbardo
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. — Henry David Thoreau
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. — Cornel West
The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is… — James E. Faust
Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life. — Chogyam Trungpa
If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase… — Peter Deunov
In love the ordinary is made sacred. — Arthur Dobrin
Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary. — Jaggi Vasudev
Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways,… — Jack Kornfield
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing… — Michael Crichton
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight… — Ingmar Bergman
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. — Bear Grylls
Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men — Tunku Abdul Rahman
I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time… — Bill Murray
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset. — Haruki Murakami
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. — Roger von Oech

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